Matthew Arnold

English poet, literary critic and inspector of schools, born at Laleham, near Staines, on the 24th of December 1822. He was the son of the famous Dr. Arnold of Rugby, and Winchester, Rugby and Balliol College, Oxford, all of which contributed their best towards his education. It would be a bold critic of his life and his writings who should attempt to aver what his work would have been if his training had been different. In his judgments on Goethe, Wordsworth, Byron, Shelley and Hugo, it may be externalizen how strong was his impulse to bow to authority. On the another(prenominal) hand, in Arnolds ingenious reasoning away the conception of saving to a stream of tendency not ourselves which makes for righteousness, we see how strong was his natural impulse for taking original views. The incident that the very air Arnold breathed during the whole of the impressionable halt of his life was academic is a very important accompaniment to bear in mind.

After a year at Winchester, Matthew Arnold entered Rugby school in 1837. He early began to indite and print verses. His first publication was a Rugby repute poem, Alaric at Rome, in 1840. This was followed in 1843, after he had deceased up to Oxford in 1840 as a scholar of Balliol, by his poem Cromwell, which won the Newdigate prize.



In 1844 he graduated with second-class honors, and in 1845 was elected a fellow of Oriel College, where among his colleagues was A. H. Clough, his intimacy with whom is commemorated in that exquisite elegy Thyrsis. From 1847 to 1851 he acted as individual(a) secretary to Lord Lansdowne; and in the latter year, after performing for a short time as assistant quash at Rugby, he was appointed to an inspectorship of schools, a post which he retained until two years before his death. He married, in June 1851, the daughter of Mr. Justice Wightman. Meanwhile, in 1849 appeared The Strayed Reveller, and other Poems, by A, a volume which gained a considerable esoteric reputation. In 1852 he published another volume under the same initial,...If you indigence to get a full essay, order it on our website: Orderessay



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